1. By: Tony Andoyan
Seat Belts
By: Tony

2. Lives?
More than 15,000 lives are
saved a year because they
wear a seat belt when
traveling in a car.

3. Background
• Seat belts were first introduced in about 1950
but were not enforced and used until 1984.

4. Wear a Seatbelt
• Although you may not want to wear a seat belt, because it
can push on your stomach and get annoying when trying to
move or adjust; previous tests have been found that seat belts
save lives though the way that they have been designed, the
mechanism, and the amount of people who wear them.

5. Seat Belts
The seat belts Y shape is for maximum safety, it
helps with the sudden shock or stop without any
fatal injuries.

6. The Y
In a collision the 3-point belt spreads out the
energy of the moving body over the chest, pelvis,
and shoulders.

7. Comfort over safety?
• Although it may not be the most comfortable it
is the most effective way to save your life
when in a car crash.

8. Don’t Believe me!!
How often do you wear a
seat belt when in a moving
vehicle?
Always Most of the time
Almost never Never
7% 10%
20%
63%

9. Mechanism
• Although we might take seat belts for
granted, a seat belt is very complex.

10. What is it??
• The Seat belt is a weighted pendulum.

11. Stop!!
• When the car comes to a sudden stop, the
inertia causes the pendulum to swing forward.
Saving you from flying out the window.

12. Life or Death?
Help Save Lives
Never
Almost never
Sometimes
Always
0 5 10 15 20
How often do you see people not
wearing a Seat Belt, when in a
moving vehicle?

13. Conclusion
• In conclusion seat belts do save lives and will
continue to save lives as long as people wear
them at all times.

14. Closing
People who wear a seat belt are 50% less likely
to die when in a car crash.

15. Works Cited
• Works Cited
• National Safety Council.
http://www.nsc.org/safety_road/DriverSafety/Pages/SeatBelts.asp
x. 1995. 2013.
• HowItWorks. http://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-driving-
safety/safety-regulatory-devices/seatbelt3.htm. 2012. 1998.
• NHTSA. http://www.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa/2012ciot/stats.html. 2012.
• Snyder, Edgar. http://www.edgarsnyder.com/product-
injuries/auto/seat-belts/seat-belts-statistics.html. 2013. Article.
2002.
• Wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt. 4 February 2013.

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